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Sept. 1942. Rochester, N.Y. "Shirley Babcock at right in the front listening to a lecture with other student nurses." Latest installment in the Babcock saga from the camera of Ralph Amdursky for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Savannah - There is a bit of truth in what you say, but only a bit. Scrubs for some doctors (mostly surgeons and anesthesiologists) and everyone else working in Surgery, such as OR nurses, Surgical Technologists, SPD (Sterile Processing Department) Staff, plus NICU Nurses (in some but not all facilities) and L&D (Labor and Delivery) staff are indeed laundered by the hospital, Those staff members are required by Infection Control to NOT wear anything that could be construed as "street clothing" while on the job, including "store bought" scrubs worn from home and out and about as some people insist on doing before and after their shifts. The hospital laundry has the industrial machinery and laundry processes in place to get out "biological contamination" that nobody would wish to carry home to their own family laundry, or try to remove with inadequate processes at home.
But, this is not true for all staff. Staff Nurses, Nurse Aids (known to some as PCTs or Patient Care Techs), Unit Secretaries and most other staff on the units where patients are cared for daily, are required to purchase and maintain their own personal uniforms, including laundering and pressing. Hospitals play no part in that, other than establishing the rules by which staff are governed.
Back when Student Nurses attended Hospital-based three year nursing schools, and lived primarily in the Student Nurses Dorms, the hospital provided not only the uniforms (although not always free) they were provided either by a large sewing department within the hospital itself, or through a separate Uniform Company. But, given the enormous amount of work required to launder, dry, starch and iron all the individual parts of the uniform worn in the 30's through the early to mid 60's, it would have been a logistical nightmare for the students to do all this up at the time for themselves. So, it was part of the benefit of their hospital training that uniform maintenance was handled by the hospital laundry. They had the proper equipment and laundry chemicals on hand to remove stains, starch heavily, and the big "mangles" on which to steam press everything quickly and efficiently. So much of the student's time was devoted to study, classes and work on the wards and in other clinical acreas, there simply were not enough hours in the day, or even space, to manage all that other work as well!
I get a kick out of some of the more obvious posed shots. The student nurses appear to have their books open to different pages, one is looking at the camera and another is trying very hard not to laugh out loud. I love these!
Shirley has some mends on her stockings, I bet in 1942 they were fairly expensive to buy. As for the shoes, I had to wear them (with the white uniform) back in 1970 in beauty school too. Talk about going through a LOT of white shoe polish!
I believe scrubs were brought into style for nurses (and surgeons) because they are easy for hospitals to launder and are cheap to replace if irreparably stained.
I can only imagine how difficult it was to keep these white uniforms clean when you're a nurse coming into contact with all types of bodily fluids. That said, they are quite classy.
Since every one is texting about those caps, they actually ment something. Each nursing school had its own individual cap design. So if you we're in the know, you could tell which school your nurse had attended. The one that I remember the most was from Mount Sinai (in NYC). It was a small puffed pill box made out of transparent liaise, very different from the normal designs.
Yeah, you, the cute one looking into the camera!
My grandmother went through RN training in the '20s and had a lot of funny stories about it. They ran nurses training pretty much like a military school, with room inspections and bed checks. Since I went to a military school (Norwich U in Vermont), I could really associate with all the things they did as a result (like greasing door knobs when the inspecting head nurse came around, etc.)
Although today the entire hospital staff seems to wear whatever they choose in the area of multicolored and printed "scrubs" with no headgear I'm guessing it was easier in '47 to tell the R.N.'s from the gift shop volunteers. I once inadvertently insulted an M.D. by requesting she bring me a cup of water. I thought she was a high school 'candy striper'. And as for the phrase "everybody is on the same page" this is not true in this study group. It looks as though some are in the front of the book, some in the back and some in the middle. Still I'm so thankful for the dedication and healing abilities of all those in the medical profession. I would not be here today if it weren't for their caregiving.
Those nurse shoes remind me of the shoes (in black) that my maternal grandmother (1897-1983) used to wear when I was a kid in the sixties. Even then, they struck me as old fashioned and belonging to a certain character type. My grandmother didn't have it easy (widow with three kids in the Depression), and she could be tough and mean when the situation called for it. The solid heels on those shoes had a crisp and distinctive sound, and they meant business. Much as I respect her and what she stood for, the footwear always seemed to me to be distinctly witchy.
Ahhh, the extinct nurses uniform. I'm lucky enough to remember when nurses actually dressed like this. Now you would have a hard time telling the difference between nurses, doctors, orderlies and janitors in a major hospital. They all wear the same thing, scrubs (pretty much pajamas) and those hideous plastic Crocs shoes.

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The US Army Nurse Corps in World War II, part 2 - how Army nurses were recruited and trained, and what military rank they held.
The US Army Nurse Corps in World War II - part 1 of a 4-part series - who could serve in the ANC? On Sarah Sundin's blog.
Portrait of Army Nurse Bernice B. McCormack taken in April 1945. She joined the ANC in March 1942 and was stationed at Fort Adams and Fort Getty in Rhode Island until December 1942 when she was transferred to Charleston, SC, for overseas training. McCormack set sail later that month, with stops in Cuba, Trinidad, and Ascension Island before reaching Ghana on 12/1/1943. On March 7 when she was transferred to Dakar, Senegal, where she remained until February 1944. She passed away on 24/9/2007 ~
Lt. Helen I. Hyatt, 59th Evacuation Hospital, during the unit's second stay at Epinal, France. Picture taken in January 1945 ~
US Army Nurses in the field WW2 1942 France
Phyllis (Wollenberg) Mirfield, WWII Combat Nurse by Fort Devens Museum
Two unidentified Army Nurses in olive-drab capes ~
Pinner says: 'My parents married while both serving in the US Navy during WWII. Kitty Gleason of NJ was a WAVE & George Pomeroy Miller of West VA was a Pharmacist Mate. This is their wedding pic in 1945' ~
world war two nurses - Google Search
Vintage nursing uniform. White Swan Uniform Fashions
Greta Friedman, the nurse in the WW2 iconic photo, died Sep 8th at the age of 92.
McCall 7869. LOL! just like our instructors would have worn and tried to make us wear. White dress, white cap, white hose and sensible white shoes.
Army Nurse (2nd Lieutenant) wearing long regulation officer's overcoat
WW II 1st Army Air Force Nurse Service Jacket & Two Off-Duty Dress's
Army Nurses (left and right) and WAC officer (in the middle) in olive-drab service uniforms. Army female nurses were provided with OD uniform in 1943. The design was adopted from the revised WAAC (renamed WAC) uniform. The WAC officer is dressed in popular uniform variant known as "Pink and Greens" which became optional in the later stages of World War II ~
"Gee, she sure is swell!" GI heroes say of their flight nurse (National Geographic | September 1945)
Army Nurses Corps uniform, World War II by Charleston Museum, via Flickr


IN THE NEWS: Monday, January 5, 1942


AraBelle Fuller, Army Nurse Corps, WWII
Monday, January 5, 1942 IN THE NEWS: Arabella Fuller, Local Nurse, Cited for Bravery at Pearl Harbor Miss Arabella Fuller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Fuller, living near Pringle, has been cited by the government for bravery under fire during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7 it has been learned here. Details of Miss Fuller’s heroism are not fully known but it is understood she risked here life along with soldiers to aid the wounded and dying as shells from Japanese bombers rained all around. Miss Fuller who has received a second lieutenant’s commission in the Army’s Nursing service, was awarded a medical corps insignia pin and bar. Miss Fuller sent the pin to her parents at Pringle. She is a graduate of the Sister’s hospital at Hot Springs, receiving her diploma in 1939. She was a nurse at the state sanatorium for 16 months and resigned from there in Mach 1941, going to Springville and Santa Barbara, California where she nursed in hospitals. On November 15 she sailed for Honolulu and was at the Leahi home, as a Red Cross Reserve, taking special work. Since the bombing of Pearl Harbor she has been transferred to Tripler General Hospital at Fort Shafter on the island of Oahu where Pearl Harbor is located. Mrs. Fuller said her daughter did not have time to write until four days after the bombing and wrote that she was well and liked her work fine and for her parents not to worry. Imagine my surprise when I went on duty at Tripler Hospital to find one of my patients was Captain Swain, formerly of Custer. I was also surprised to meet Juel P. Heihn, who was an enrollee at Lightning Creek and later enlisted in the Marines. I ran into him before Christmas and we surely had a nice visit. He left soon after going out to sea.” Miss Fuller wanted to be remembered to all of her many friend at Pringle and Custer.

Only nurse killed by enemy action in WW II remembered as a 'warm, gentle' hero in Misericordia exhibit | CBC News Loaded
For Remembrance Day, the Misericordia Heritage Collection is honouring Agnes Wilkie and sharing her story.
Jamie-Lee McKenzie · CBC News · Posted: Nov 07, 2018 5:18 PM CT | Last Updated: November 7, 2018
"Pleasant, very quiet, kind and mild," are just some words used to describe Agnes Wilkie.
She could also be described as "a war hero."
For Remembrance Day, Winnipeg's Misericordia Heritage Collection is honouring Wilkie, a 1927 graduate of the Winnipeg hospital's nursing school — and the only Royal Canadian Navy nursing sister killed by enemy action during the Second World War.
"We would like to bring attention to one of the most famous war heroes that is an alumni at Misericordia, and that's Agnes Wilkie," Barbara Paterson, the chair of Misericordia Heritage Collection's planning and policy committee, told CBC News Wednesday.
To that end, documents and pictures detailing Wilkie's life have been collected in the Misericordia Research and Education Centre on Wolseley Avenue.
The record of her acceptance into the navy, a report card from when she was a student at Misericordia, her yearbook and even her very first paycheque are just some of what's on display.
Wilkie was born in Oak Bluff, Man., in 1904, according to the Canadian Virtual War Memorial .
According to a biography from the Misericordia Heritage Centre, she was admitted to Misericordia's School of Nursing in 1924. It was a 1927 transcript that described her as "pleasant, very quiet, kind and mild."
After graduating, Wilkie worked as an operating room supervisor, before becoming a private duty nurse in Winnipeg.
In January 1942, she volunteered to serve in the Royal Canadian Navy as a nursing sister, becoming one of only 343 nursing sisters in the Royal Canadian Naval Medical Service.
Wilkie was stationed at the naval hospital in St. John's, and served as assistant matron. Her commander described her "keen sense of her responsibilities" and praised her "tact, personality and ability beyond measure," according to the Misericordia Heritage Centre.
Her report card describes her as "warm, gentle — and the navy also described her that way," Paterson said.
"Obviously her character was of somebody who was a very caring, gentle person," she said.
In October 1942, Wilkie was just finishing her first shore leave, during which she had returned to Carman, Man., to visit her parents — John and Helen Wilkie.
She and a friend, Margaret Brooke — a dietitian and fellow nursing sister — then took a train east from Winnipeg. On Oct. 13, 1942, they boarded the S.S. Caribou — a passenger ferry — in North Sydney, N.S.
The ship was headed to Newfoundland with 191 passengers, a crew of 46 and an assortment of railcars, livestock and cargo.
Just after 3 a.m. on Oct. 14, 1942, the Caribou was hit and torn apart by a torpedo launched by a German U-boat. The ship sank in just a few minutes.
"Within five minutes the boiler exploded, causing most of the people to be catapulted into the sea," said Paterson.
The scene was described as utter chaos — lifeboats were destroyed, and passengers were screaming and crying as they were thrown into the freezing waters without life jackets.
Wilkie and Brooke shared a cabin on the ship. "When the torpedo hit, Agnes grabbed the life jackets, which Margaret later on said saved their lives," according to Paterson.
In a letter to her brother, Brooke later wrote that "when the torpedo struck I was thrown across the room, right on top of Agnes. I knew what had happened, but for a second couldn't do anything. [Agnes] jumped up and grabbed the flashlight and climbed up for out life belts."
Together, they forced their cabin door open and found themselves in the cold Atlantic ocean.
"They swam to one of the only lifeboats to survive the explosion," Paterson said.
"There were several people on the overturned lifeboat, and they were all hysterical because they had lost their family members, they didn't know where they were or what had happened, and Margaret and Agnes held on to the ropes on the side of the lifeboat and they kept people calm," she said. 
Wilkie spent her hours in the water trying to keep the others calm, assuring them they would be rescued and singing hymns with them. 
"Unfortunately, after a few hours, Agnes began to experience hypothermia and Margaret asked her a question and she didn't respond," Paterson said.
"Margaret then realized that [Agnes] was going to go into the water, so she held onto the boat with one hand and Agnes with the other."
Wilkie was just 38 when she died — becoming the only woman serving in the Royal Canadian Navy killed by enemy action during the Second World War.
She is commemorated in Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance , and she was buried with full naval honours in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in St. John's.
A monument in her honour was placed in the cemetery in Carman, Man.
Brooke was one of the 100 people who survived the sinking of the Caribou. She received the Order of the British Empire for her heroic efforts to save Wilkie.
Paterson said it's important to remember people like Wilkie, and to ask the question, "How is our history informing who we are today?"
"I'm a Misericordia graduate, and I like to think that some of the characteristics that Agnes had were instilled in me too," she said.
The history of people like Wilkie "soon gets lost if we don't revisit it," she said.
"There are people that have worked at Misericordia for a long time who are not aware of what an amazing person she is. There are people in Winnipeg who don't know, there are people in Carman that don't know.
"And I think we need to celebrate that."
Jamie-Lee McKenzie is from Kebaowek First Nation. She's a Reporter with CBC Sudbury. She's also worked as a Reporter and Associate Producer with CBC Manitoba and CBC North in Whitehorse. Reach her at jamie.mckenzie@cbc.ca or connect with her on Twitter @JamieMcKenzie_
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